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Wednesday, February 3
ROILED GOP FACES CHOICE: MODERATE CHENEY OR QANON GREENE
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met late Tuesday with hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as Republicans wrestled over how to handle a bipartisan outcry over her endorsement of outlandish conspiracy theories and violent, racist views. Their session came as the GOP faced unrest from opposing ends of the party’s spectrum over Greene and Rep. Liz Cheney, whom far-right lawmakers want to oust from her leadership post after she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. [AP]
BIDEN TAKES AIM AT TRUMPIAN IMMIGRATION POLICIES
President Joe Biden signed a second spate of orders to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies, demonstrating the powers of the White House and its limitations without support from Congress. His orders on family separation, border security and legal immigration make nine executive actions on immigration during his first two weeks in office, with proposed legislation to give legal status and a path to citizenship to all of the estimated 11 million people in the country who don’t have it. [AP]
PENTAGON CHIEF PURGES TRUMPISTS
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a broad review of the panels, essentially purging several dozen who were appointed last-minute under the Trump administration. During the last two months of his tenure, former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller removed longtime members from defense policy, health, science and business boards and replaced many with Trump loyalists. [AP]
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OXFORD VACCINE DRASTICALLY CUTS TRANSMISSION
The vaccine created by Oxford University and AstraZeneca reduces the spread of the coronavirus, according to the first research showing how vaccines affect transmission of the illness. Further, a single shot can provide significant protection against COVID-19 if its second dose is delayed by three months. The findings could allow countries to vaccinate many more people with their first shots with less fear that they won’t have enough on hand for a second jab. [HuffPost]
WARREN PROPOSES WEALTH TAX BILL
Nearly a year after suspending a presidential campaign that she built on the idea of a national wealth tax, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is poised to join the Senate Committee on Finance and introduce legislation to make her stump speech a reality. Warren pledged that she will “press giant corporations, the wealthy, and the well-connected to finally pay their fair share in taxes.” [HuffPost]
CAPITOL OFFICER LIES IN HONOR
Slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lay in honor Tuesday night in the U.S. Capitol, allowing his colleagues and the lawmakers he protected to pay their respects. Biden and first lady Jill Biden were among the mourners. Sicknick died after defending the Capitol on Jan. 6 against the mob that stormed the building and interrupted the electoral count after Trump urged supporters on the National Mall to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat. [AP]
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WHY AOC'S HONESTY ON TRAUMA MATTERS
One of the first things experts will tell you about trauma is that the body never forgets. This is what Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was referring to when she told more than 150,000 people who tuned in to her Instagram live to hear her recount her experiences during the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol: that “trauma compounds.” [HuffPost]
NAVALNY CONDEMNS PUTIN IN COURT SPEECH
In an unsparing courtroom speech delivered before he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a labor camp on Tuesday, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sharply criticized President Vladimir Putin, describing him as a “thieving little man in his bunker.” Navalny was arrested Jan. 17 upon his return to Moscow from Germany, where he’d spent five months recovering from a failed assassination attempt. [HuffPost]
AMAZON TO PAY $61.7 MILLION TO SETTLE TIP THEFT CHARGES
Amazon Inc. agreed to pay more than $61.7 million to settle allegations it cheated Amazon Flex drivers out of nearly one-third of tips from customers for more than two years. The money paid to the Federal Trade Commission will be used to compensate drivers. The FTC said Amazon in 2015 advertised that a program called Flex would pay drivers $18 to $25 an hour to make deliveries and that they would receive 100% of any tips. But in late 2016 Amazon “secretly reduced its own contribution to drivers’ pay,” according to the FTC complaint. [Reuters]
BEZOS STEPS DOWN AS AMAZON CEO
The gags came fast on Twitter after Jeff Bezos announced he will step down as CEO of Amazon, the online juggernaut he started 27 years ago. Bezos — the world’s second-richest person, behind Tesla CEO Elon Musk — will become Amazon’s executive chair. He will focus on “the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions,” he wrote in a note to employees. [HuffPost]
COMA TEEN WAKES WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF PANDEMIC
A British teenager who was in a car crash last year is starting to wake from a 10-month coma with no knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic, despite having been infected with COVID-19 twice. Joseph Flavill, 19, suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was hit by a car while walking along a road in Staffordshire, England, on March 1. At the time, fewer than 40 cases of COVID-19 had been reported in the U.K. [HuffPost]
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